Rust's simple download script

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 09:48:14 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:

>
> The issue is that they (the core developers) don't want Tango 
> in any of the core tools and I don't feel like replacing Tango 
> with Phobos for something that is working perfectly fine as it 
> is. It's even working better, because it doesn't depend on 
> libcurl which has caused a lot of problems. It's not even 
> available by default on Windows.
>
> On the other hand. I would like to rewrite DVM from scratch and 
> add support for LDC and GDC as well. That could be an 
> opportunity to remove that dependency on Tango, as long as no 
> new dependencies are added, like libcurl.

I see, but if you're going to rewrite DVM anyway, we might as 
well start brainstorming now and see what needs to be done, how a 
possible toolchain integration could / should like and so on. Are 
there any additional features you or anyone else would like?